• Breaking The Silence: Bringing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Into The Light

  • By: Dawn Olivo
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Breaking The Silence: Bringing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Into The Light

By: Dawn Olivo
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  • In our introductory podcast, we meet Executive Director Connie Huffman, who talks about how Hi-Line's Help came into existance and her role in seeing the program grow substantionally over more than 40 years. We talk about the services that HLHAS offers and much more!


    This Podcast hopes to bring the issues surrounding domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking to a wider audience, effectively providing more awareness into these ever growing problems that many people face behind closed doors. Hi-Line's Help for Abused Spouses is a non-profit victim advocacy program based in Northcentral Montana.


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Episodes
  • Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 6

    Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 6
    Oct 16 2024
    This is part 2 of a series of interviews with Angela Mastrovito, who's daughter Rebekah Grace Barsotti disappeared under suspicious circumstances in July of 2021 near Missoula, Montana. In this episode, Angela talks about Rebekah's abusive marriage, her fight to leave and start her life over and the beginning of circumstances that just do not add up. If you have not yet listened to part 1, I encourage you to do so. Thank you for listening!

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    46 mins
  • Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 5

    Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 5
    Oct 2 2024

    Hi and welcome to Hi-Line’s Helps podcast, Breaking the Silence, Bringing domestic violence and sexual assault into the light. This podcast is the start of several episodes speaking with Angela Mastrovito. Angela’s daughter, Rebekah Grace disappeared on July 20th 2021 near Missoula mt. Her vehicle and personal belongings were found off Interstate 90, but Rebeka and her dog were missing.

    What has unfolded in the 3 years since that day is truly unbelievable. In the next several episodes, Angela talks to us about what she and her family have been through, the heartache of feeling invisible and still not knowing for certain what happened to Rebekah, along with the barriers and brick walls she has encountered from all angles. She tells us about Rebekahs abusive relationship with her husband and her efforts to leave and begin her life again.

    Angela’s love for her daughter keeps her fighting every day for justice, no matter how heartbreaking. This mother’s cry will not be silenced.

    I feel that so often in interviews like this, it tends to jump right to what happened. I would like to take this first episode to get to know who Rebekah was. She was someone who was quiet in demeanor but full of life; adventurous in spirit and radiated light and love for those around her. Rebekah was a beautiful young woman, with so much life left to live and love left to give and no one should ever forget WHO she was.


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    29 mins
  • Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 4

    Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 4
    Sep 18 2024
    Welcome! On Episode 4 of Breaking the Silence, We have a conversation with Shana. Shana is Hi-Line's Help's financial manager and advocate. Her and Connie discuss what brought her to HLHAS, balancing the role of Pastor's wife and Advocate, along with barrier's to starting over for victims due to the high cost of starting over and the importance that programs such as HLHAS plays to helping those struggling.

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    25 mins

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